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CentOS 6 / 7 : jakarta-taglibs-standard (CESA-2015:1695)

high Nessus Plugin ID 86500

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated jakarta-taglibs-standard packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

jakarta-taglibs-standard is the Java Standard Tag Library (JSTL). This library is used in conjunction with Tomcat and Java Server Pages (JSP).

It was found that the Java Standard Tag Library (JSTL) allowed the processing of untrusted XML documents to utilize external entity references, which could access resources on the host system and, potentially, allowing arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2015-0254)

Note: jakarta-taglibs-standard users may need to take additional steps after applying this update. Detailed instructions on the additional steps can be found here :

https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1584363

All jakarta-taglibs-standard users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue.

Solution

Update the affected jakarta-taglibs-standard packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?a4f12993

http://www.nessus.org/u?4e732b63

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 86500

File Name: centos_RHSA-2015-1695.nasl

Version: 2.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/22/2015

Updated: 6/3/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-0254

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:jakarta-taglibs-standard, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:jakarta-taglibs-standard-javadoc, cpe:/o:centos:centos:6, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/CentOS/release, Host/CentOS/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/1/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/9/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-0254

IAVA: 2016-A-0266-S

RHSA: 2015:1695